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...Biggie, who was discovered by Sean Combs (then Puff Daddy), flaunted the gangsta-rapper M.O. of drug-dealing, motor-mouthing and subsidiary violence. The movie Biggie (Jamal Woolard) is portrayed sympathetically - sometimes cunning, ruthless and weak, but a gifted, generous man who's surrounded by strong women: his girlfriend-rappers Faith Evans (Antonique Smith) and Lil' Kim (Naturi Naughton) and especially his mother Violetta (Angela Bassett). His ladies provide a few steamy sex scenes; The Lady, Violetta, anchors the story as one of a noble mom demanding that her boy meet the high standards...
...Slumdog Millionaire” is the most fun you will have at the movies until neuroscientists genetically alter our brains so we’re capable of more enjoyment than is currently humanly possible.“Slumdog” tells the story of a young man named Jamal (Dev Patel) from the slums of Mumbai who’s on the verge of winning India’s version of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” when he is arrested under suspicion of cheating. An uneducated orphan working at a telemarketing firm couldn?...
...young man, Jamal (Dev Patel), has miraculously, or suspiciously, spanned those two worlds. A tea server, or chai wallah, for a telephone marketing company, he has won a fortune on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. The show's host (Anil Kapoor) is so skeptical of Jamal's ability to answer the questions that he has policemen try to torture the truth out of the lad. His explanations all relate to his hard life as a homeless orphan in the company of his brother Salim (Madhur Mittal) and, not often enough, with the winsome, consistently abused...
...Pixote and City of God and Oliver Twist and a dozen Indian musical melodramas - which are more sanitized by far but display the same obsession for family ties and first love, and are just as unashamed in pushing feelings of joy and despair to the apogee of passion. Jamal's search for his long-lost lifetime love Latika is the stuff of Indian-pop films from the Raj Kapoor era to today. True to its roots, Slumdog, adapted from the novel Q&A by Vikas Swarup, ends with a chastely rapturous kiss and an all-out dance number, composed...
...unexpected lead in Florida, and the lopsided presence of Obama supporters in the early-voting lines, which affords the campaign more pre-Election Day publicity than normal politicking would, "is helping us torque up the vote in as many different pockets of the state as possible," says campaign spokesman Jamal Simmons...